Case Study: Vermeer strengthens secret scanning and saves engineering time with GitGuardian

Integrating GitGuardian in Vermeer's Software Development Lifecycle

The customer, Vermeer Corporation, faced significant challenges managing secrets detection using an open-source tool, Gitleaks. Maintaining the custom solution required substantial engineering effort for deployment, reporting, and handling false positives. Furthermore, they lacked a centralized system to prioritize and efficiently remediate a large backlog of historical secrets across their 1000+ repositories.

GitGuardian provided a comprehensive internal monitoring platform that seamlessly integrated into Vermeer's development tools like GitHub Pull Requests. The solution offered superior detection accuracy, centralized management for tracking and assigning incidents, and guided remediation for developers. By implementing GitGuardian, Vermeer established a 'Secure by Default' approach, saved over 100 hours of engineering maintenance time, and efficiently organized their historical leak cleanup.

Vermeer

C.J. May

Senior IT Security Analyst